Ashkhen Kazaryan
Senior Fellow, Free Speech & Peace
Stand Together
Ashkhen Kazaryan
Senior Fellow, Free Speech & Peace
Stand Together
Ashkhen Kazaryan is a tech policy expert. She manages and develops policy projects on free speech, content moderation, surveillance reform and the intersection of constitutional rights and technology. She is Senior Fellow, Free Speech & Peace at Stand Together. She leads the development and execution of ST’s strategy to both defend free speech online and to promote a culture of pluralism via innovations in how we gather online. Prior to that she was Content Policy Manager on the Content Regulation team at Meta, covering North and Latin America, and was also its policy lead on Section 230. Before that she was the Director of civil liberties at TechFreedom from July 2016 till November 2020. At TechFreedom she also managed outreach and coalition building for the organization and hosted The Tech Policy Podcast. Ashkhen is regularly featured as an expert commentator in news outlets across television, radio, podcasts, and print and digital publications including CNBC, BBC, FOX DC, Newsy, Politico, Axios, The Information, Protocol, The Washington Examiner and many others.
Kazaryan received her Specialist in Law degree summa cum laude from Lomonosov MSU in 2012, Master of Law Degree from Yale Law School in 2016 and is completing her PhD in Law at the Law School of Lomonosov Moscow State University (thesis on Legal Regulation of Art Markets).
At Yale Law she served as an Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, Senior Editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review and Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology while also being Co-Chair of the Public Interest Fellowship. Prior to that Ashkhen worked as the leading legal analyst / law clerk at The High Intellectual Property Court. In 2013-2014 she was a Fox Fellow at Yale. She is a proud supporter of New England Patriots and Broadway musical enthusiast.
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Contributions
Deep Dive Episode 256 – Section 230 Goes to Court: Gonzalez v. Google and the Future of the Electronic Town Square
A panel of experts discusses what Section 230 permits and doesn’t permit—a question now before a number of courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court in Gonzalez v. Google.
Listen to this podcastSection 230 Goes to Court: Gonzalez v. Google and the Future of the Electronic Town Square
A panel of experts discussed what Section 230 permits and doesn’t permit—a question now before a number of courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court in Gonzalez v. Google.
Watch this videoLeave a Decent Comment: Section 230 & the Fight for the Future of the Internet
In this short film, Former Representative Chris Cox, Senator Ted Cruz, Ashkhen Kazaryan, Rachel Bovard, and Jeff Kosseff explain the history and current issues around Section 230.
Watch this videoExplainer Episode 17 – A Big Week for Section 230
Jennifer Huddleston and Ashkhen Kazaryan break down the recent news related to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Listen to this podcastTech Roundup Episode 11 – TikTok’s Running Clock
How might the standoff over TikTok’s U.S. operations play out? Does the app pose a significant enough national security threat to warrant the forced sale? And how does this situation fit into the broader picture of U.S.-China relations?
Listen to this podcastDeep Dive Episode 131 – Free Speech in the Digital Era: Section 230 and the FCC
In this live podcast, panelists discuss the background of Section 230 and reflect on whether it continues to encourage innovation and free speech online, or if changes are needed.
Listen to this podcastTech Roundup Episode 10 – Trump’s Executive Order on Online Censorship
What is the legislative and legal background of the recent Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship, how will it affect Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and what may be the unforeseen consequences of this move? These and other questions are addressed in this episode.
Listen to this podcastTech Roundup Episode 8 – The Future of Facial Recognition
In this episode, Matthew Feeney hosts a discussion with Ashkhen Kazaryan and Caleb Watney on the approach regulators might take to the brave new world of facial recognition technology.
Listen to this podcastTech Roundup Episode 5 – Section 230
In this episode, experts discuss Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects platforms from liability for the content produced by users. Some legislators have recently floated the idea of enforcing ‘platform neutrality’ in a way that, according to critics, threatens the sort of free speech Section 230 is meant to protect.
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